Note 78 — Chapter III

Furbiti permitted himself to use strong language. Even the Romanist chronicler, the nun Jeanne de Jussie, records that Furbiti “touched to the quick the Lutheran dogs,” and said that “all those who belonged to that cursed sect were licentious, gluttons, lascivious, ambitious, homicides, and bandits, who loved nothing but sensuality, and lived as the brutes, reverencing neither God nor their superiors” (Le Levain du Calvinisme, p 79).